FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 21, 2012 – By News-Ledger Staff – Governor Jerry Brown’s office announced last month that Ronald Rackley, 46, of Elk Grove, has been appointed warden of the Deuel Vocational Institution at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has served as chief deputy administrator since 2009. Rackley has [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 14, 2012 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor West Sacramento has become the first California city to be certified by the state controller with a clean bill of health for the manner in which the city “wound down” its redevelopment agency assets. When the state abolished redevelopment agencies in a [...]

NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 21, 2012 – NEWS-LEDGER COLUMN BY DARYL FISHER This year I decided I wasn’t going to wait until the very last minute to do all my Christmas shopping so off I went this past Saturday to a shopping mall in downtown Sacramento. I quickly found what I was looking for and was [...]

NEWS-LEDGER STAFF — NOV 21, 2012 – West Sacramento’s fire department reports that firefighters were able to contain a fire in a Houston Street auto repair shop last Wednesday. They responded to the shop at 620 Houston Street at about 9:25 a.m., finding “smoke coming out of one of the roll-up doors at the business.” [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 21, 2012 – About 250 families totaling about 1,000 West Sacramento residents turned up Saturday for the annual “Community Giveaway Day” held on Saturday at the Westfield Village Elementary School campus. The event started at 8 a.m. — but people started lining up on the drizzly day as early as [...]